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...MANUEL PRADO, 67, candidate of his own personalist party and a former (1939-45) President, is the archetype of the Peruvian oligarch, wealthy from banking, real estate and industry. Sitting amidst the priceless antiques in his mansion, he says: "I am the man of the people...
APRA agreed. Odria chose Lavalle, and most other candidates dropped out. Only Prado and Belaunde stayed on as formal opposition candidates. By mid-May, when a mostly Aprista throng of 35,000 cheered Lavalle in Lima, Odria seemed on the verge, after all, of electing...
Officially, APRA now supports no candidate; to support Prado or Belaunde would be to invite the army to nullify the election on the grounds that an "illegal" party elected the winner. But Apristas individually can still vote-and APRA has told them to do so. Candidate Prado would welcome these votes, but the Apristas are cool to him. Instead, they have rallied to Belaunde. One night last week 60,000 citizens turned...
Both in style and in mood the picture echoes Velasquez' huge masterpiece, The Maids of Honor, at the Prado. But where Velasquez firmly persuades the eye to believe in the painted image, Sargent only beguiles it into a momentary suspension of disbelief. And Velasquez' reverent handling of the way light falls on objects becomes mere virtuosity in Sargent. The fortuitous manner in which Sargent's light picks his flowerlike figures out of the gloom smacks more of the theater than of life. Yet when all this has been said, it is true that no painter alive today...
...Goya's paintings in the current exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is to be regretted but not condemned. There is really more than enough for two or three visits in this huge collection of drawings, 129 of which are from the Prado and Lazaro Galdiano Museums in Madrid, and the rest from the rich local resources...